The High Line Opens Its Third and Final Phase

Opening on Sunday, the High Line’s final phase, from 30th Street to 34th Street, blends eastward views of rising developments with Hudson River sunsets.CreditTodd Heisler/The New York Times

If the newest, last stretch of the High Line doesn’t make you fall in love with New York all over again, I really don’t know what to say.Phase 3 of the elevated park, which opens on Sunday, is a heartbreaker, swinging west on 30th Street from 10th Avenue toward the Hudson River, straight into drop-dead sunset views. It spills into a feral grove of big-tooth aspen trees on 34th Street.

It’s hard to believe now that some New Yorkers once thought renovating the decrepit elevated rail line was a lousy idea. Not since Central Park opened in 1857 has a park reshaped New Yorkers’ thinking about public space and the city more profoundly. Like Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim museum in Spain, it has spread a dream, albeit largely a pipe dream, around the world: how one exceptional design — in this case, a work of landscape architecture — might miraculously alter a whole neighborhood, even a whole city’s fortunes....Continue Reading

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